wow, this is amazing... 96 year old man witnessed Lincoln
May 2, 2021, 8:18 AM
assassination at Ford's Theater as a 5 year old kid in 1865... appears on the TV Show "I've Got A Secret" in 1956. Dang, that's just one year before I was born. I remember watching that show as a kid, and similar shows like What's My Line and To Tell The Truth.
I was listening to "Bob & Tom" one morning on my way to
May 2, 2021, 9:12 AM
work, and they had a news item about Churchill's parrot dying over the weekend. He had gotten the parrot as a gift during WW2, and it had died in 2003 or so.
The funny part was that it still mimicked Churchill all these years later. It would occasionally squawk epithets and curses about the Germans and Hitler, right up until just before it died.